Greenpeace India today condemned the inauguration of Sardar Sarovar dam on the Narmada river, saying it signals "ruin" and not development of 10,000 hapless and poor farmers. The NGO said the Sardar Sarovar Project, which was dedicated to the nation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today, would not bring any development for advasis in the absence of a just and fair rehabilitation programme. Greenpeace India's executive director Ravi Chellam said as part of civil society, they condemned the ...

India stumped in efforts to clear toxic smog as cricketers throw up IMAGE: Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal wears the anti-pollution mask. Photograph: BCCI India's state-run NTPC is launching bids for clean technology for two coal-fired power plants near New Delhi, officials said, as criticism mounts over the country's failure to end a toxic smog which strikes the capital every winter. But environment activists said the measures were too little and too late. Illegal crop burning in ...

Having travelled across the world to campaign for environment protection over the last four decades, the iconic Rainbow Warrior is all set for its maiden India tour.Made under the technological support and watch of NGO Greenpeace International, the ship will ...

IMAGE: Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in New Delhi. Photograph: Indian football team/Twitter A day before the U-17 FIFA world cup kicks off in Delhi, environment NGO Greenpeace said today the level of coarse air pollutants PM10 "far exceeded" the safe levels in the host cities of the tournament last October. The Greenpeace report came on a day the national capital recorded 'poor' air quality for the second consecutive day. The NGO claimed high level of PM10 may "reduce" the quality of ...

Agence France-Presse City: Palakaad/ New Delhi Only electric vehicles will be sold in the country by 2030 India will roll out nearly 100,000 battery-powered buses and autorickshaws onto its sulphurous city streets in the coming weeks, setting it on the bumpy ...

A group of Greenpeace activists demonstrated here to commemorate the people murdered in the Amazon region, according to the environmentalist organisation.During the demonstration on Tuesday, the activists also demanded an end to impunity for the perpetrators ...

Rio de Janeiro,, Oct 18 (IANS) One person was killed and four others injured when a Greenpeace aircraft crashed in Brazil's Amazon region, a spokesman for the environmental group said."We can confirm that one of the five people who were aboard the plane died ...

The Central government advanced on Wednesday its deadline to roll out the much cleaner Bharat Stage (BS)-VI compliant auto fuel by April 1, 2018 — instead of April 1, 2020 — in Delhi to control severe air pollution levels in the city and its ...

IMAGE: People buying fire-crackers near Jama Masjid in old Delhi on Monday. Photograph: Vijay Verma/PTI Photo News of the Supreme Court order decreeing a cracker-free Diwali this year spread like the proverbial wildfire through wholesale markets in New Delhi on Monday, uniting shopkeepers big and small in their anger and dismay. With losses running into crores, their Diwali was going up in smoke, said shopkeepers in Sadar Bazar and Jama Masjid, two of ...